5LL #176 - Labor, Identity, Political Education, New Lefts, Trash

Upticks, Waves, and Social Upsurge
Kim Moody, Spectre
The strikes of 2021 in context.
Permission to Imagine
Lovia Gyarkye, Dissent
A new collection of Stuart Hall’s writing offers a guide to the limits of representation in building anti-racist politics.
Crisis and the Personal is Not Enough: The Importance of Political Education
Sudip Bhattacharya, Cosmonaut
Sudip Bhattacharya reflects on his experiences with political education, making the case that education is often as important as agitation and organization.
Radical Movements and Political Power
Justin H. Vassallo, Boston Review
Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.
See Your Trash
Allyson Paty, The Baffler
What are we to make of what we throw out?
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
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